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Our Terms & Conditions

These terms and conditions apply to the agreement between us and you in relation to our provision of the Service to you.You indicate acceptance of these terms and conditions of service by placing an order with us. These terms and conditions will not be varied for individual customers.

1. Definitions

"Agreement" means the agreement between you and us for the provision of the Service, the terms of which are set out in these terms and conditions,.

"Business Day" means a day, other than a Saturday or a Sunday, on which clearing banks are open for commercial business in both London and Edinburgh;

"Charges" means the monthly fee, the set up fee and any one-off payments due to us by you for use of the Services;

"Service" means products and services provided by us relating to the Internet, World Wide Web and e-commerce, including but not limited to internet access, e-mail, website building, website hosting, domain name registration and live broadcasting services;

"us" and "we" and "our" means Webmadness Ltd

“Website” means the website located at www.webmadness.co.uk; and

“you” and “your” means the company or other person wishing to purchase Services.

2. Terms and Conditions

Before using the Service you should read these terms and conditions carefully. By using the Service you indicate your agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions, whether or not you are a registered user of the Service. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions do not use the Service. Where we agree to provide any additional products or services these may be provided by us or by a third party. We will inform you if any such additional products or services (whether provided by us or by a third party) attract separate charges or are subject to additional or different terms and conditions. You confirm that in relation to any Agreement entered into and the purchase by you of the Service that you are acting in a business capacity and are not and will not "deal as a consumer" for the purposes of section 12 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977. If you believe that you may be acting as a consumer and not for the purposes of a business you should contact us immediately.

3. Customer Obligations

You hereby appoint us to act on your behalf with respect to the provision of the Service.

3.1. User Account, Password and Security

You will receive a username and password for use with the Service. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the username and password and also for all activities that take place under use of that username and password. If you reasonably believe that this information has become known to any unauthorised person, you agree to immediately inform us and the password will be changed.

3.2. Acceptable Use

3.2.1. The following clause 3.2 applies to all uses by you of the Service, including all use of any website built by you or by us and/or hosted by us as part of the Service. We may promptly suspend or block access to your use of the Service if you are in breach, or we have reason to believe you may be in breach of this clause or any other provision of these terms and conditions. You shall not:-

3.2.1.1. use the Service or your website in any way to send unsolicited commercial e-mail or “spam”, or any similar abuse of the Service;

3.2.1.2. send e-mail or any type of electronic message with the intention or result of affecting the performance of any computer facilities;

3.2.1.3. publish, post, distribute or disseminate defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or other unlawful material or information via the Service, or on your website;

3.2.1.4. use the Service to threaten, abuse, disrupt or otherwise violate the rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of others;

3.2.1.5. engage in illegal or unlawful activities through the Service or via your website;

3.2.1.6. make available or upload files to your website or to the Service that you know or should be reasonably aware contain a virus, worm, trojan or corrupt data;

3.2.1.7. obtain or attempt to obtain access, through whatever means, to areas of our network or the Service which are identified as restricted or confidential; or

3.2.1.8. transfer material to or from your computer or website which infringes any laws, regulations or the rights of others.

3.2.2. In using the Service you shall comply with all laws applicable to such use.

3.2.3. We reserve the right to remove material from your Website or the Service that we find offensive or believe that others may find offensive.

3.2.4. You are responsible for providing all information that you require to be placed on your website. You have full responsibility for the content of your website including without limitation any images that you display on your website. It is your responsibility to ensure that the content of your website does not breach the intellectual property rights of any third party and that you have permission to use all such content. We accept no liability for the content of your website.

3.2.5. We reserve the right to cease to provide the whole or any part of the Service in relation to your website and to terminate the Agreement if we deem the content of your website to be unsuitable.

4. Our Service Obligations

4.1.1. We warrant that we will make reasonable endeavours to ensure that the Service is provided as described in the Website but because the Service is provided by means of computer and telecommunication systems we make no warranties or representations that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

4.1.2. You acknowledge and accept that no software including without limitation software supplied as part of or used to provide the Service is virus, interruption or error free and in the event of any such errors, interruption or viruses (save as expressly set forth in the Agreement) all conditions and warranties, express or implied, statutory or otherwise, (including but not limited to any conditions or warranties as to satisfactory quality or concerning the fitness of the Services or any part thereof for a particular purpose) are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. No oral advice or written information given by us, our employees, agents, licensors or the like shall create a warranty nor shall you rely on any such information or advice.

4.2. Data Back Up

4.2.1. Whilst we shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that backup copies of your website and all data contained in your website are made at reasonable intervals, you shall be solely responsible for the backup of such data and we shall not be liable for any damages, loss, costs or other expenses arising out of or in connection with any loss of data by you which are due to the failure of you or us to back up such data.

4.3. Suspension of Service

4.3.1. We may disconnect the provision of the Service without liability on our part, and with as much prior notice to you as reasonably possible (except in the case of paragraph (a) or paragraph (c) below in which case we may do so without prior notice):

(a) if necessary for operational reasons or for the purposes of carrying out work at our premises or maintaining or upgrading the Service or our system; or

(b) if obliged to comply with an order, instruction, or request of an emergency service organisation or a governmental or other competent authority; or

(c) if you owe any outstanding payments to us.

5. Limitation of liability.

5.1. Our entire liability and your only remedy arising in respect of any claim in respect of breach of duty, delict or breach of these terms and conditions, whether or not arising out of negligence, is limited to the fee paid by you for the Service from which the breach has arisen, in the twelve (12) months prior to the action or event giving rise to the liability.

5.2. In no event will we be liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss or damage whatever (without limitation for example loss of business, loss of opportunity, loss of profits) including as a result of disclosure of your username or password. This shall apply even where such a loss was reasonably foreseeable or if we had been made aware of the possibility of you incurring such a loss.

5.3. Our liability to you for fraudulent misrepresentation and for death or injury resulting from our own negligence or that of our employees’ or agents’ negligence while acting in the course of their duties shall not be limited.

6. Payment

6.1. In consideration of our provision of the Service you shall pay to us the Charges as follows:-

6.1.1. the set up fee (as specified in the relevant package) in advance;

6.1.2. the monthly fee (as specified in the relevant package) monthly in advance; and

6.1.3. any other payments due to us for provision of the Service as specified by us, all by the payment method selected by you or on the relevant invoice sent to you by us.

6.2. In the event of any invoice in respect of the Service being unpaid we reserve the right to suspend or cancel the Service (including any domain name registration) without notice. In the case of a suspended website we reserve the right to post notification of such suspension. Suspension of Service will not remove your liability to pay any Charges that are due and payable on your account at the date of termination. In addition we will have the right to charge interest on any unpaid amounts at the rate of 8% over the then current Bank of England base rate. If you do not pay any Charges within thirty (30) days of the invoice date we reserve the right to change the ownership of your domain name into our name without further notice to you. If the domain name is cancelled for non-payment then it will be come available to others for registration. If the domain name reverts to us then you may negotiate directly with us to regain the domain, however we have no obligation to provide the domain to you.

6.3. Where a credit card arrangement exists and if a termination or cancellation has not been received and if expiration date on a credit card occurs we reserve the right to automatically change the expiration date.

6.4. We reserve the right to alter Charges, particularly with regard to domain name register costs. Any increase in Charges will either be published on the Website or a notification message will be sent to your online Control Panel (as described in Clause 9.6).

7. Term

7.1. The Agreement will become effective on the date of the Order and subject to any rights of termination set out in these terms and conditions shall continue for a period of not less than twelve (12) months provided that:

7.1.1. you may cancel the Agreement without any liability to us within five (5) Business Days of the date of commencement of the Order using the telephone number provided on the website and any Charges paid by you at the date of cancellation will be refunded by us within thirty (30) days of our receipt of your cancellation notice.

7.2. We shall have the right to terminate the Agreement by notice in writing to you if any of the following events occur:-

7.2.1. you fail to make any payment when it becomes due to us; or

7.2.2. the bandwidth used for traffic to and from the web site is exceeded beyond use considered acceptable by us and is deemed by us to affect the performance of other client websites. Notwithstanding any other remedies we may have under these terms and conditions or in law, in the event that the acceptable bandwidth is exceeded, we may elect to charge you an additional monthly fee to be discussed with a sales consultant at the time; or

7.2.3. you are in breach of any of your obligations under the Agreement.

7.3. If you terminate the Agreement during the initial (twelve) 12 month period other than in accordance with clause 7.1, or because we have increased the Charges or materially changed the terms of the Agreement to your detriment, or if the Agreement is terminated by us under clause 7.4 below, you must pay us the applicable Charges for the remainder of the (twelve) 12 month period.

7.4. Either party may terminate the Agreement or the Service provided under it immediately by notice to the other if:

7.4.1. the other party commits a material breach of the Agreement and, in the case of a breach capable of being remedied, fails to remedy it within a reasonable time of being given written notice from the other party to do so; or

7.4.2. the other party commits a material breach of the Agreement which cannot be remedied under any circumstances; or

7.4.3. the other party passes a resolution for winding up (other than for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction), or a court makes an order to that effect; or

7.4.4. the other party ceases to carry on its business or substantially the whole of its business; or

7.4.5. the other party is declared insolvent, or convenes a meeting of or makes or proposes to make any arrangement or composition with its creditors; or a liquidator, receiver, administrator, administrative receiver, manager, trustee or similar officer is appointed over any of its assets.

7.5. Any rights to terminate the Agreement shall be without prejudice to any other accrued rights.

7.6. On termination of the Agreement for any reason: we shall have the right immediately to remove any apparatus belonging to us from your premises; and all amounts owing for the Service shall be due and payable in full on demand whether or not then due and you shall have no right to withhold or set off such amounts; and we may delete all e-mail, websites, and other data stored on the Service by you and re-use the e-mail addresses, domain names and web-spaces not held by you. We shall not exercise this right for six (6) weeks in the case of termination by us other than for breach by you and in such circumstances shall transfer any domain names held by you to another ISP subject to your payment of the relevant prevailing domain name transfer charge rate.

7.7. Upon the termination of the Agreement for any reason whatsoever: you shall promptly return to us all copies of any software relating to the Service in your possession; and we may cease to host your website with immediate effect; and each party shall on request promptly return any documents or papers relating to the business of the other party (including any of the other party’s confidential information) which it then has in its possession or control.

7.8. Refunds

7.8.1. Where a service issue arises during the initial set-up period you may request a refund, however we reserve the right to provide a service extension or another product or to resolve the service issue as an alternative to providing a refund.

7.8.2. We reserve the right to charge for any additional services you have requested from us relating to your cancellation of Service, including without limitation any services relating to web design for a temporary website, forwarding or transferring the service and providing back up whilst any such transfer is carried out.

7.9. Assignment

7.9.1. We may assign or otherwise transfer the whole or any part of the Agreement at any time. You may not assign or otherwise transfer the Agreement or any part of it without our written consent.

8. Renewal

8.1. We will automatically renew your contract each year after the initial twelve (12) month period of the Agreement unless you notify us in writing at least thirty (30) days prior to the end of the initial period instructing us to do otherwise.

8.2. You agree in the event we are not informed at least thirty (30) days prior to the end of the initial twelve (12) month period of your wishes not to renew, we will automatically raise and forward an invoice to you for the renewal for a further year. If a credit card or debit card is on file with us, you agree that we will be entitled to automatically take payment via that device.

8.3. If payment is not received via this process (i.e.: credit card or debit card is no longer valid, credit card or debit card has expired, etc.) prior to the end of the initial twelve (12) month period, we will inform you via fax or letter and you agree that the invoice is to be paid prior to the end of the initial twelve (12) month period and that we reserve the right to pursue any outstanding invoice through the appropriate legal channels.

8.4. You agree that any package of ours purchased under a promotion at a discounted price for the first year will be charged at the full price for all subsequent years as set out in our price list in force on the commencement date of the current contract period. Our price list is available on the Website.

8.5. We will use our reasonable endeavours to ensure that your domain name, internet keyword or any other product comprising the Service will be automatically renewed after expiry of the initial or any subsequent two (2) year registration period provided always that the Agreement remains in force up to the date of expiry of such period.

8.6. Where a domain name is to be renewed we will automatically renew a domain(s) either as part of the overall package or as an individual domain. An annual renewal fee will be applicable as outlined in our price list on our Website.

8.7. Whilst we will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that your domain name, internet keyword or any other product of ours is renewed at the relevant renewal date, you acknowledge that it is not possible for us to guarantee such renewal and that we shall not be liable for any failure to renew the domain name.

9. Product Terms and Conditions

9.1. Domain Name Registrations

9.1.1. On payment of the appropriate Charges by you we shall apply for registration of the domain name requested by you.

9.1.2. If you have asked us to register a domain name then you have authorised us to act as your agent with the registering authority under the relevant terms and conditions for that authority.

9.1.3. We will not be held responsible if an incorrect domain name has been registered. It is your responsibility to ensure that correct details are provided to us.

9.1.4. In the event that the Domain Name requested is unavailable or becomes unavailable between our receipt of your request for registration and the date the application is processed by the registration agent or naming authority, we will offer an alternative domain name to you and upon your approval of such alternative domain name, we shall register that alternative domain name in accordance with the provisions of this clause. For the avoidance of doubt, the unavailability of the Domain Name or any replacement Domain Name shall not affect the validity of the Agreement or your obligation to pay the Charges.

9.1.5. We shall not be liable for any delay in activating any domain name on our server nor for any cost incurred by you as a result of such delay and your obligation to pay the Charges shall not be affected by any such delay.

9.1.6. You warrant to us that the Domain Name does not infringe any intellectual property rights of any third party, including but not limited to trade marks registered or otherwise used by any third party and you shall indemnify and keep us indemnified in respect of any loss, damages, costs or other expenses arising out of or in connection with any breach by you of this clause.

9.1.7. You acknowledge that we shall have the right to cancel, disconnect or transfer your Domain Name at any time upon receipt of a court order or arbitration award requiring such cancellation, suspension, or transfer.

9.2. Internet Domain Name Transfers

9.2.1. At your request as part of the Service, we shall host an existing domain name owned by you (the “Existing Domain Name”) always provided that you shall be solely responsible for the transfer of the Existing Domain Name to our server on or after the date on which the Service provided to you commences and for any fees payable to any third party in relation to such transfer. In order to effect the transfer, you shall request your current ISP or any other relevant third party:

9.2.1.1. in the case of UK TLD’s to modify the IPS Tag as required by us; and

9.2.1.2. in the case of international TLD’s to replace the name servers, admin, technical and billing contact with the details instructed by us.

9.2.2. You acknowledge responsibility for the transfer to us or duplication of your website before the domain name is released from the previous ISP and, in the event that your website is lost as a result of the transfer, you agree to provide us with a copy of your website to be uploaded on your web space and that you will not hold us liable for any loss whatsoever of any of your website or your material in the transfer process.

9.2.3. We shall not be liable for any delay in such transfer and your obligation to pay the Charges shall not be affected by any such delay.

9.3. Web Hosting

9.3.1. You agree to comply with the Web Hosting related Acceptable Use Policy set out in this clause (“AUP”) as part of your agreement with us. By using our web hosting facility, you agree to comply with this AUP, and we may terminate the Agreement and/or withdraw this facility and any other facilities associated with the Service (in either case in whole or in part) should you fail to comply with the AUP. This policy has been written on a common sense basis and has been designed to protect the interests of those who wish to benefit from what the Internet has to offer and:

9.3.2. you may not maintain web space above that limit in which you have contracted. You are prohibited from maintaining a mailbox above the specified storage size as specified on the Website. You should ensure that unneeded e-mail is periodically deleted so that you do not exceed the mailbox limit. If this limit is exceeded, you may not be able to receive mail; and

9.3.3. while it is acceptable for you to extend the amount of CGI scripts provided by us, it is understood that no support can be offered for third party scripts. Any additional CGI scripts found to be functioning in an offensive or destructive manner or found to be using excessive processing power or memory will be removed from your website without notice and you accept that we reserve the right to remove any CGI scripts that, in our opinion, are causing or could cause a detrimental effect on our systems or to other users of the internet; and

9.3.4. you are responsible for all use and content of your hosted space. We do not accept responsibility for any content that you place on to your hosted web site. We reserve the right to investigate suspected violations of the AUP. When we become aware of possible violations, an investigation may be initiated, which may include gathering information from you and the complaining party, if any, and examination of material on our servers. Much of the AUP reflect acts that may constitute breaches of legislation or regulations and may in some cases carry criminal liability; and

9.3.5. during an investigation, we may require you to divulge information relating to your activities and how they may have impacted on our services so as to compromise the security or tamper with our system resources or accounts on our computers or at any other site. Use or distribution by you of tools designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples of such tools include: password-guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools; and

9.3.6. unsolicited advertising mailings, whether commercial or informational, are strictly prohibited. You may send advertising material only to addresses that have specifically requested it. We will not forward mail to you if the account was terminated for bulk mailing or unsolicited advertising. Violations of this AUP can sometimes result in massive numbers of e-mail responses. If you receive so much e-mail that our resources are adversely affected, we may terminate the Agreement and shut down your account; and

9.3.7. if your web pages are generating internet traffic above that level for which has been contracted, you will be informed and offered the opportunity to upgrade the capacity of the web space for a fee outlined in our price list and

9.3.8. we will investigate complaints regarding inappropriate material and content on our network and may, at our sole discretion, require that the material be removed or otherwise take action as outlined above. Criteria for determining whether a page is inappropriate include the system resources consumed by the page and applicable laws; and

9.3.9. you may not use World Wide Web pages within or outside our network to violate any part of our Acceptable Use Policies, or to attempt to disrupt the content and sites or internet experiences of other users; and

9.3.10. reselling our hosted web space is expressly prohibited; and

9.3.11. We reserve the right to remove any web page (in whole or in part) on our servers, at any time and for any breach of this policy. We will not accept any responsibility occasioned for any loss caused as a result of such removal; and

9.3.12. We will provide access to your web space on our servers for uploading of your third party designed websites. We will provide assistance to you in so much as completing the uploading of any such website. You acknowledge that because there are so many design packages available on the market, and the numerous methods of web design, we do not guarantee that any website not designed by us will function correctly when uploaded to our server. Although we will make efforts to assist you in remedying these instances, you acknowledge that we will in no way be responsible for providing a remedy to fix your website. You acknowledge that we cannot, under any circumstances, offer assistance with respect to third party CGI scripts not directly provided by us.

9.3.13. We reserve the right to amend, alter or modify this policy at any time and in any manner. We may notify you by e-mail of this, but you agree to review the policy on our Website regularly and your continued use of the Service two weeks after any change will constitute acceptance of the change.

9.4. Website Construction

9.4.1. Intellectual Property. The copyright ownership of website content (images & text) belongs solely to you. The software and source code of the website remain the intellectual property of Webmadness Ltd and may not be transferred to another host or 3rd party developer. The HTML, PHP, specifically cropped images to fit into the HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript used by the website remain the intellectual property of Webmadness Ltd and cannot be used or copied without our permission.

9.4.2. We shall assist you with the construction of and/ or development of a website in accordance with the options selected by you when ordering Services.

9.4.3. Upon payment of the appropriate fee, we shall allocate to you web space on our Website server as defined by our package, on which your website may be hosted.

9.4.4. Any updates and/or amendments to your website, web space, or retrieval of e-mail shall be made by you using the software by accessing your website on our Website server via our designated connection platforms (dial-up or broadband). In the event your website is accessed, updated or amended, or retrieval of e-mail is facilitated in any other way than via our connection platform as specified by us, you shall pay to us the relevant fee specified in our price list on our Website.

9.4.5. Whilst we shall use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that your website can be accessed by users of the internet at all times, you acknowledge that it is technically impossible to provide such access free of fault at all times and we do not undertake to do so. We expressly reserve the right to suspend availability of your website for the purpose of necessary or scheduled maintenance. Access to your website may also be adversely affected by conditions and performances outside our control, including without limitation the breakdown of transmission and telecommunication links.

9.4.6. Should you request us to design your website you acknowledge and agree that you are responsible for supplying to us the materials which you would like to be included in the building of your website. We may reproduce, as well as digitally manipulate the materials in the course of building your website and you confirm that we are allowed to do so. We reserve the right to reject any part of the material submitted if it is deemed by us unsuitable for inclusion within your website or if such materials violate any aspect of our Acceptable Use Policies.

9.4.7. You acknowledge that the volume or type of material submitted must be commercially realistic for us to build your website within the defined scope of work. You accept that we may, at our discretion, decline to perform the website development services if your expectation exceeds the scope of work as agreed with you when your order for the Service was placed.

9.4.8. You accept that we will not be responsible for holding design material for more than one month from date of completion and uploading of your website to your web space. You must write to us on your company or business letterhead instructing how and when to return the design material along with a self-addressed postage paid envelope before the expiration of the one month period if you desire the material to be returned.

9.4.9 Per your request, we will include in your website links to other websites and you acknowledge that we will not make any independent enquiry into those links. You confirm that the creation of those links is authorised by the owner/operator of the linked site and that the linked sites does not conflict with our Acceptable Use Policies.

9.5. Website Statistics

9.5.1. You acknowledge that our statistics tool is designed to provide you with an indication regarding the performance of your website and that we will not be liable for any generated reports that do not accurately reflect the true statistics.

9.5.4. You acknowledge responsibility for checking the statistics compiled by the statistics tool. We will not be responsible for providing statistics reports to you.

9.6. Online Control Panel

9.6.1. Your on-line control panel allows you to manage your hosting account via the internet. You acknowledge that the online control panel is designed to provide you with increased usability with respect to the management of the your account with us and that from time to time the online control panel may not reflect with complete accuracy of account related information.

9.6.2. You acknowledge that only authorised account users are to have access to the online control panel and that we shall be indemnified against any loss or damage incurred by you with respect to misuse of the online control panel.

10. General

10.1. We may update or amend these terms and conditions at any time. We will communicate changes to you via the Website.

10.2. The Agreement and any documents expressed by the Agreement to be incorporated in the Agreement constitute the entire understanding between us and you and save in respect of fraudulent statements supersedes all prior agreements, arrangements, understandings and representations (whether oral, written or otherwise) made by or between us and you.

10.3. The Agreement and these terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and subject to the non- exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in England.

10.4. The headings of the paragraphs of the Agreement are inserted for convenience only and are not intended to be part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of the Agreement.